With a 671-kW laser, powered by a pack of lithium-ion batteries, and an air-powered generator to provide 900 horsepower worth of thrust, the Chaparral 2X VGT will be capable of a 240-mph top speed in the video game with 0-60 acceleration capability of 1.5 seconds.
Oh wow! Someone's non-existent fantasy car is now part of a video game.
Well, my non-existent fantasy car isn't part of a video game, but it accelerates to 60mph in naught point eight seconds, is powered by twin warpdrives and looks like a star destroyer on wheels!
DTS wrote:The difference is Chaparral are engineers and you, Eraser, are not.
Bullshit spewed by certified engineers is no less bullshit than bullshit spewed by me.
Drawing a picture of an imaginary car and coming up with way over-the-top specs for that car is something kids do when they're bored in elementary school.
It's not like jet powered cars are a new thing. I can see them making this vehicle. Whether it performs like they want it to though is another question entirely.
It features a mid-mounted laser beamed-energy propulsion system, which pulses beams of light that focus in a shroud, creating shock waves that generate tremendous thrust in the lightweight race car.
I thought they were going to somehow use the game for rapid prototyping and do physics tests or something interesting for a real car they have in development. That would have at least been worth creating a thread for.
